When I was young it occured to me that I should try to ride my bike "cross handed" (left hand on right hand grip etc). All was OK with one grip - the second I touched the other: bang, straight on the ground. I think the learned reflex for keeping the bike up with tiny steering inputs becomes the wrong way around and is impossible to supress. Anyow - I wonder if you could ride one of these with your hands crossed.

I have a nice reverse steering bicycle that I would like to sell. Does anyone Know what it maybe worth. It is a lot of fun to see people try to ride it. Thanks.

It is safe to say the market for bikes that can't be ridden is rather thin. You might try advertising during pledge week at your local university frat houses. Beyond reverse steering is there anything notable about the bike? Ultegra or Campy gruppo maybe?

Thanks for the video links. Never heard of "reverse steering" bikes till now. The idea seems to be having a
bike that turns to fork to the left when you turn the bars to the right and vice versa...There's no reason why
such a bike couldn't be rideable, other than the fact that steering it is counterintuitive and requires a rider to
overcome natural reflexes that have developed and become more or less hard-wired neurologically. With training
you could adapt to the reverse-steering bike. There is quite a bit of perceptual-psychology research into this sort
of thing. For example, folks have fitted experimental subjects with special eyeglasses that reverse left and right and
studied the subjects' ability to perform various manual tasks with "reversed" visual perception.

I'm sure that such experiments have some scientific and entertainment value.

I'm reminded of the bar trick where you have to trace a path through a very simple maze --but you had to view it through a mirror. Everybody was failing until a group showed up that had no problems at all. They were dental students and very familiar with using mirrors.

The Dymaxion vehicle wasn't so much a car as the land-based phase of an aircraft. Maybe the thing was meant to be taxied, not driven. Bucky might have gotten a bit carried away with the publicity. Still a brilliant concept for the time.

When I was young it occured to me that I should try to ride my bike "cross handed" (left hand on right hand grip etc). All was OK with one grip - the second I touched the other: bang, straight on the ground. I think the learned reflex for keeping the bike up with tiny steering inputs becomes the wrong way around and is impossible to supress. Anyow - I wonder if you could ride one of these with your hands crossed.

The trick to ride "cross handed" is to ride no handed but with your hands touching very lightly the handlebar.